National Convention

Forbidden Freedom In history, human rights have always been a problem, and yet to this day, it still remains. Specifically, in the past, women had adapted to live in a suppressed environment, solely because their limited rights have never allowed them to cross a certain boundary. In fact, the United States, foremost in the race of modernization in the world, enabled women to vote in 1920; however, prior to that, individualism, freedom, and equality did not exist in the dictionary for women.…

Identity Through A Name In Seneca Falls, NY the first meeting of the Women's Rights Movement took place on July 19-20, 1848. This was just the beginning of women's equality. Women started to wear pants in the 1920’s instead of a dress or skirt. They applied for jobs others thought were not appropriate for women. They also started peaceful protest in the streets demanding a right to vote. Women got creative when fighting for the rights that all humans deserve through their actions, music, and…

Lucretia Mott started to fight for for equal right for women because when she attended the Anti-Slavery Convention in London, women were not allowed to participate fully. This led Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to create the Seneca Fall Convention. Mott published her speech, Discourse on Women, about restriction on women. She wrote the Discourse on Women about how women should have equal right as men. “ I have long wished…

Falls Woman’s Rights Convention,” Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Do you know who John Adams’s wife is? She was the writer of “Letter to John Adams,” Mrs. Abigail Adams. These two stories are fighting for the same liberty, women’s suffrage, but they use different tones and the writers come from different backgrounds which can influence their opinions and ideas. There are many absorbing points of comparison between “Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention” and “Letter…

Even though Susan B. Anthony may have passed away, her courage to stand up for women still continues to spread. She was a very influential person due to her accomplishments in the field of women’s rights. She grew up in a politically active family and was raised a Quaker. They believed everyone should have the right to be treated equally. Together they worked to end slavery and named it the abolitionist movement. An article mentions that at the age of 17, she was collecting anti-slavery…

Alliteration and hyphenate is greatly used in The American Pageant in order to enhance the history of The United States. In this excerpt which describes Kennedy’s New Frontier, the author uses big numbers, alliteration, and hyphenates as descriptive devices in order for students to categorize the given information as positive or negative and unknowingly have a set view on this topic in history. Some examples from The American Pageant include, “A stampede of 43,129,566 Johnson votes trampled the…

As we look into American history classes we see a common core across the country. Our students learn from the time America was founded to current events today. In our history classes we are taught from textbooks that are prolonged and biased towards the white man. The educational board needs to add other perspectives to history classes and textbooks because this will expand the future generation 's knowledge of others cultures, ethnicities, sex and points of view. All across the United States…

In the winter of 1777-1778, a small village in Pennsylvania made history. In the midst of the Revolutionary War, this village, called Valley Forge, was the temporary home of over 10,000 American soldiers under the control of General George Washington. That particular winter was long and bitterly cold, enough so that Valley Forge made its mark in American history as being the lowest point in the war for independence. The village of Valley Forge is located in the Schuylkill Township in Chester…

The bombing of Dresden, Germany occurred during the Second World War between the 13th and 15th of February, 1949. The attack was done by Britain and the United States through the use of an aerial bombing. Within the four raids that the allies carried out, 3,900 tons of highly explosive bombs and incendiaries were dropped on the city by heavy bombers of the United States Army Air Forces and the British Royal Air Force. Dresden, Germany was the country’s seventh-largest city and the largest of the…

.In 1971, women’s activist Judy Brady wrote the legendary feminist piece “I Want a Wife.” The essay looks at women through the eyes of married men and their seemingly endless expectations of their wives. When the essay was written, it was “first delivered aloud in San Francisco on Aug 26, 1970. Judy (Syfers) Brady read the piece at a rally celebrating the 50th anniversary of women’s right to vote in the U.S., obtained in 1920,” (Napikoski, Linda). Many men of the time dismissed the essay, but…